We performed a comparison between Juniper SRX Series Firewall and WatchGuard XTM [EOL] based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."The email protection and VPN features are the most valuable."
"The usage in general is pretty good."
"The most valuable feature is the SSL VPN, as it allows us to connect and it separates this product from other firewalls."
"I appreciate FortiGate's flexibility, which allows for centralized management through FortiManager."
"Provides good firewall security and has great VPN features."
"Whenever we raise a complaint with FortiGate, their response and resolution times are minimal."
"The threat prevention is the solution's most valuable aspect."
"The management console is pretty simple, so anyone who understands networking can initially deploy the solution."
"On a scale from one to ten, one being the worst and ten being the best I'd give Juniper SRX an overall rating of eight because of its' competitive price."
"The reason that we picked Juniper SRX is for the scalability, the fit for purpose, the tools that are available, the ongoing support and the ability to monitor, but particularly for the virtual routers in our data centers so that we can quickly upscale them when needed, when we need more throughput."
"The high availability of the application is good."
"The GUI is simple to use."
"I like that Juniper SRX is easy to use, scalable, and stable with good performance."
"Technical support has been quite helpful."
"The most valuable features of the Juniper SRX Series Firewall are the user-friendly UI, and accessing the solution is simple."
"Performance is a strong point."
"Reputation Enabled Defense indicates that some websites are so infested that it's not even worth visiting them, and therefore saving the bandwidth of going through the detection process."
"Monitoring of network activity is included in the box."
"There is a site-to-site VPN configuration between others people."
"After installing the product, we achieved awareness of our data protection needs and email misuse."
"I like the hostwatch because I can see what traffic uses the most bandwidth and I can block that site."
"It is stable and does not require you to reboot all the time."
"Application Control is fantastic with over 2,500 applications and the granularity that we can either allow people to view but not be able to log on to Facebook; or view it and log onto it if they're in the marketing department, but not play Facebook games. There are all sorts of different options like that. So it's highly granular."
"It configures in all-in-one place."
"The price of FortiGate should be reduced because there are some other leading products that are cheaper."
"Technical support for this solution can be improved."
"Fortinet FortiGate should improve the VPN tokens."
"There are some complex administration tasks in their administration portal. That needs to be improved."
"Bandwidth usage in reporting could be improved for Fortinet FortiGate."
"The feedback that I have received is that the performance could be better, and the user experience is not as good compared to a previous solution we used. It could be more user-friendly. Of course, it still works fine for our operations."
"It claims it does DLP, but the degree and level of controls are very basic."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by having more storage in the hardware for log data."
"We'd like to improve the stability and the kill rate."
"The web interface on Juniper SRX is just a short conversion from Junos OS CLI; this is not very suitable for users with little expertise/"
"We purchased three devices and all three have been replaced under RMA."
"The training videos that are available need to be improved, and made more educative."
"I think improvement can be done to the security part, particularly the UDM, and the product should have a user-friendly interface similar to FortiGate. It should have the Azure RBAC in the next release."
"The GUI needs to be easier and more helpful for users who don't have security experience."
"J-Web, Juniper Web, is sometimes not working great when users are increasing their internet use. Additionally, they need to improve the GUI, graphical user interface, and the firewall management needs to improve. Their CLI is good, but sometimes the GUI is very slow."
"The solution's initial setup process was lengthy as I was new to Juniper."
"I would like them to improve the product's overall protections. This would be good for all product users."
"WatchGuard doesn't have a product that allows them to get into the data center. And that's just because there is no hardware to do the job. The software could do it, but there's no hardware that allows that to happen at the moment. So it doesn't scale as well as some other products, that's for sure."
"The setting policies need improvement. It needs an easier way to do static NAT and check on what policy is being used for that specific traffic."
"Syslog (Dimension) is focused on presentation, but needs more focus on utility like SonicWall syslog (GMS/Analyzer)."
"The initial setup is neither simple nor complex. If you know the base in networking and how the firewall works, you will be able to figure it out."
"One huge issue with WatchGuard XTM is that I'm not getting reports in a readable format. Readable means, I don't want Excel online. We repeat auditing when we trigger the report or setup calendar. That functionality is what we are looking for from WatchGuard XTM here."
"The VPN errors are not helpful when troubleshooting."
"Sometimes we have had issues with stability of the product."
Earn 20 points
Juniper SRX Series Firewall is ranked 19th in Firewalls with 86 reviews while WatchGuard XTM [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Firewalls. Juniper SRX Series Firewall is rated 7.8, while WatchGuard XTM [EOL] is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Juniper SRX Series Firewall writes "Highly scalable, user-friendly UI, and easy to maintain". On the other hand, the top reviewer of WatchGuard XTM [EOL] writes "The multi-layer security of the products are the primary reason we use these appliances, however, the gateway wireless functionality for managing access points leaves much to be desired". Juniper SRX Series Firewall is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks WildFire, Netgate pfSense, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Check Point NGFW, whereas WatchGuard XTM [EOL] is most compared with .
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